Monday, July 19, 2010
The difference between my money management attitude as a manager/executive and as a business owner can be summed up by a version of the famous ham and eggs breakfast-making fable: the chicken is involved but the pig is committed. As a young exec, frankly my sense of responsibility resembled that of the chicken but as a business owner am now much more like the pig.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
At 9:43am last Sunday morning I had just wrapped up eating breakfast with Brandi at the McDonald’s on our corner. A well known leader was going to be manning the podium at a church near our house. I haven’t visited in several years, so between bites of Southern Style Chicken Biscuit I grabbed my iPhone and Googled the church’s name to hunt for service times.
The first line in Google’s search summary read: “Woodview Church*. Space is limited and on a first come basis” [Emphasis theirs]. Really? What a first impression.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
I hear often about new entrepreneurs seeking to expand their businesses. This week a friend told me about someone who is bootstrapping a traditional business in a crowded space.
She’s been in business for less than a year, is the company’s only employee, and works out of her home. Now she’s decided to hire quickly – in fact, she’s determined she wants to immediately hire three people full-time. Presumably she’ll instantly take her payroll commitment from providing for herself to somewhere in the ball park of $100,000 – $150,000/year.
